The International Olympic Committee has decided against a blanket ban on Russian athletes from competing in Rio – ruling instead to allow the 28 individual federations that compromise the summer Games to decide their fate

The International Olympic Committee has received an urgent letter from 14 national anti-doping organisations urging it to immediately suspend the Russian Olympic Committee and provisionally ban all Russian athletes from the Rio Olympics

A devastating and damning report into Russian sport has found that the country’s government, security services and sporting authorities colluded to hide widespread doping across ‘a vast majority’ of winter and summer sports